Lucky escape for trapped truck driver

A truck driver fortunately escaped with moderate injuries after the truck he was in lost control and rolled over onto its side in the Victoria Embankment and Maydon Road intersection this morning.

According to Garrith Jamieson, operations director of Rescue Care, paramedics arrived on the scene and found the truck lying on its side. “The driver was trapped in the wreckage and the Durban Fire Department had to use the jaws of life to free him. Our advanced life support paramedics stabilised the man while he was in the truck and once freed, he was carefully extricated from the wreckage and then transported to a nearby hospital,” he explained.

Jamieson said it was unclear at this stage what caused the truck to overturn, however the necessary authorities were on scene and will be investigating further.